The topic of internet censorship in China has been a hot one in recent months, after large-scale removal of VPNs on Apple’s App Store and rumors of blocking VPN services in the country altogether. And it seems that the country’s cyber security is set to tighten further. Reported by The Waijiao amongst others, this week a woman in Guangzhou was…
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China has being busy cracking down on Email Hosting, Web Hosting and VPN providers lately. As a direct result, large chunks of foreign hosted systems, mainly email servers hosted in the United States and Europe have had their IPs blacklisted on the Great Firewall of China, meaning…
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Pennsylvania is suing IBM over a $110 million IT project to upgrade its unemployment compensation system that the state says was never completed. […] The Pennsylvania project was ended in 2013; at that point, it was 45 months behind schedule and $60 million over budget. The state has continued to rely on its legacy systems. See Full…
IN 2010, STEVE Jobs banished Adobe Flash from the iPhone. It was too insecure, Jobs wrote, too proprietary, too resource-intensive, too unaccommodating for a platform run by fingertips instead of mouse clicks. All of those gripes hold true. And now Adobe itself has finally conceded. The company announced Tuesday that it would “stop updating and distributing the…
SSBG is an IT Solutions provider focused on Infrastructure and End-User support services for companies operating in Mainland China. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Shanghai, China, SSBG is a leading Information Technology (IT) solutions provider for small and medium size enterprises in Mainland China. A one-stop-source to provide Enterprise Grade IT services and supplies…
You’ve likely got a VPN App (or two) on your phone to help visit inaccessible websites in China like Facebook and Instagram. But starting next month, they might be impossible to use. According to rumors circulating online this week, Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) will be completely removed from Apple and Android’s Chinese app markets by July 1,…
If you are establishing a new business in China, then you will need to know more about IT and how it works here. For example, internet access is not quite the same as it is in New York or London. To help, we would like to outline the 9 major IT issues that you as…
The US-based division of the global pharmaceutical giant Merck has been hit by the ‘Petya’ ransomware attack that has crippled computer systems across the world on Tuesday. “We confirm our company’s computer network was compromised today as part of global hack,” Merck said in a statement on Tuesday. “Other organizations have also been affected. We…
Network World has been covering network technologies for 30+ years now, and sometimes we assume that everyone knows what they’re doing when it comes to installing, configuring and using this stuff. But then we run across some examples where consumers and businesses are still not completely familiar with the gear. See Full Article here or download the…
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